ICE offering a signing bonus and student loan forgiveness is another sign of recruitment problems. Even with extremely low standards, they can't get close to the desired numbers.
That's good (fewer personnel means less cruelty) and bad (more desperation, leading to encouraging militias/vigilantes).
š So ICE can get student loan forgiveness...
Time to start infiltrating these organizations
This makes it even more vital No Masked Cops laws get passed. Unaccountably is one of the most attractive features of the job for them.
It will be fitting if what happened during CBPās hiring binge happens to ICE and they let in a bunch of drug cartel guys and serial killers. Fitting, but not the world I want to live in either
Anyone want a job at the GESTAPO? Anyone?
Only thugs want those jobs. So why not just work for the mob? It pays better. You aren't as hated. Drug pushers aren't afraid to show their face.
Also, lol at student loan forgiveness.
Assumes things not in evidence.
A deal with the devil
What job can they get next? No employer will want the complications of a former ICE agent. Many of your family, friends, and neighbors will avoid you or refuse you entirely. How do you explain it to your kids? Even young kids grow up and will know the truth. Itās a permanent stain. Deservedly.
I'm offering four slashed car tires for every new ICE employee I discover.
Can I sign up and then do the worst possible job? Like just sit around in my car all day and never arrest anyone. I could use the loan forgiveness I have 280K to pay back plus interest
Potential ICE officers went to school?
Well, of course we only have so many sadists in this country, & only so many mercenary enough to commit foul deeds for money. It is actually encouraging that they are running out of mindless, conscienceless thugs.
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Once you become a Nazi, you are a Nazi for life. Consider that, recruits.
So, all the "bad" cops are going to take advantage of this and pump out their chests when they terrorize the neighborhoods. Someone, please go undercover and expose this shit.
it might also signal how unpopular the agency and policies are.
they already seems to have the bottom of the barrel working for them, meaning the morally bankrupt and dudes that couldn't make it in the military or as police.
signing bonus may attract a few who are desperate.
Got to keep your stormtroopers loyal.
Can see who the Trump administration values, and it isn't teachers or healthcare workers or scientists. They're going to have the best paid death squads in the world.
There's something very sad about offering those options to ICE while trying to limit them for everyone else.
Left off the ICE job description:
Must accept risk of post-Trump Nuremberg-like trials for crimes against humanity committed while a member of ICE
How much do u wanna bet that forgiveness wonāt materialize.
Wait.
I was told that student loan forgiveness is BAD
"Student loan forgiveness" would require that these people be educated
So effectively if you enforce one aspect of our dystopia, you can get a free pass from a DIFFERENT PART of our dystopia?
That 'uncontrollable' part is worrying. Is that a 'we'll pay you for quotas of warm bodies, regardless if your supervisor says you brought in a chihuahua to meet it'?
Potential ice agents lining up for that sweet sweet student loan forgiveness
I canāt imagine too many college-educated grads going full on goon. Maybe theyāre targeting the drop outs.
Everything is fine until they start putting job postings on pizza boxes.
What if a bunch of human-rights-loving liberals signed up to do the job? They could get past vetting due to understaffing desperation & poor management. They could try to make things more humane from the inside and, failing that, blow the whistle on the worst abuses.
who knew they had outstanding loans for nursery school and kindergarten?
Hahahaha good
One bit of nuance with the loan forgiveness is that it's probably referencing PSLF, a program available to all federal employees. (But let's be honest, probably not a ton of college grads that want to work for ICE).
Administratively Uncontrollable Overtime? What, they can have as much OT as they want if they claim its part of going after someone?
Iām sorry did you say STUDENT LOAN FORGIVENESS š”š”š”š”š”
How big a signing bonus and how massive do your student loan debts have to be that it's a good trade for your soul?
I'd like to believe they have recruitment issues, but I worry this is more about the authoritarian largesse for its supporters. As a dictator, you always want to make sure favoured groups are on your side, and you do so by being generous with the state coffers.
This the same PSLF Republicans have been trying to kill either directly or indirectly by gutting Dept of Ed? Or is it something else? Wife & I have been fighting to get her loans taken care of & she's YEARS past the required hrs/time needed, but the process is a bureaucratic hellscape--by design. š
I can think of some appropriate enhancements retirement benefits for ice agents.
They canāt steal too much from TSA without triggering senatorial anger
If there is a field office near you, go hold up a sign and demoralize them more.
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David Graeber in his book "Debt: The First 5000 Years" documents extensively how debt is the motivation behind a host of history's cruelest actions. Cortez conquering the Aztecs for example. Seeing the same thing in modern day Russia in the fighting in Ukraine.
What next? Free broad-brimmed hat, leather trenchcoat, walking stick and wire glasses?
Itās so funny that they think any of these racist thugs went to college.
Every time we mention Trump or his administration, we should preface it by saying the Anti-American Trump administration, the Anti-American Republican party. The Anti-American President needs to be labeled ACCORDINGLY AND ACCURATELY AND CONSISTENTLY
The position of ICE Agent has lower physical fitness standards than Walmart Greeter.
Not sure student loans are a top priority in the racist chud target demographic
How long until we get "ICE Youth" programs?
$50k bonus is like Iraq War Surge levels
Not much overlap between college education and future ICE agent
Exactly.
Kias have factory sales every other weekend, because that's how they sell cars.
BMW and Porsche have maybe one sale per year.
Because they can sell their cars at full price.
Same in the military: if you got a signing bonus, it's because we couldn't fill the job without it.
@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social I wonder ways the total membership of proud boys, 3%ers, etc. I'm guessing that a lot of them are going to wind up in ICE.
so can i join up and just not be a model employee
i wonder if i could get the job even though i'm a bleeding heart liberal - i imagine there's a screening process to weed out democrats. the salary and benefits are probably awesome. more DEI for conservatives
Get into ICE get bonuses, do a bad job š
And "Enhanced Retirement Benefits".
We should be pointing out that retirement may involve Rikers Island for ICE. "I was following orders" does not work as a defense.
At what point do a bunch of us sign up and just use weaponized incompetence on a massive scale to ensure no one gets arrested and ICE can't operate?
I hope a lot of people don't see this as an opportunity to get a signing bonus and then work to sabotage the organization from within. That would be a shame.
I remember when NPR got all upset about Biden trying to forgive student loan debt, citing the national injunction; two years later they had an episode about national injunctions being a way to defeat the will of the people embodied in Trump
Rumor has it they are soliciting retired federal law enforcement officers with offers that allow them to continue receiving their pensions while also getting full salary for their ICE job
Hey, remember when SCOTUS said Biden was a tyrant for trying to forgive student loan debt?
They ARE the vigilantes and militias. They are unaccountable, and act the same way.
